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Settle the descent rate
See Arrival Approach
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 114 kt with 3.0° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 168 kt, 59 kt under its 227 kt target.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 974 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 97 m of runway left; gear up at 393 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,290 fpm on average to 974 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 64 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 12 m at the widest, and lifted off 12 m right. Airborne 64 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Not every check held at once from 1.4 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 360 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 513 m left of the centreline at 1.4 nm, then drifted 48 m right between 0.9 and 0.4 nm, then inside the band from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 352° at 9 kt · 8 kt head · 0 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,293 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 27 ft, 377 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 55 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 293 m before the threshold.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,293 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Plan view — the full 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended.
Touched down 293 m short of the threshold. The 3.13 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
Departing from Reichelsheim Airfield (EDFB), the PC21 aircraft began its takeoff roll on runway 36, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 114 kt in 846 meters, which accounted for 69% of the available runway length. The local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 14 °C and a gentle headwind of 8 kt from a direction of 352 °, resulting in a negligible crosswind component.
As the aircraft transitioned into the enroute phase, it began its initial climb from an altitude of 1,295 ft above sea level (asl) to 2,505 ft asl, achieving a vertical gain of 1,210 ft in just 2 minutes while covering a horizontal distance of 8 nm. The climb was initiated overhead Echzell, a location in the German state of Hessen. Subsequently, the aircraft began its enroute descent from 2,524 ft asl to 548 ft asl, a decrease of 1,976 ft in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nm. This descent phase was initiated overhead Friedberg, another location in Hessen.
Upon approaching the destination airfield, the PC21 aircraft began its final approach to runway 36 from the south, maintaining a heading of 356.0 ° at an altitude of 137 ft above ground level (agl) and a distance of 1 nm from the runway threshold. The aircraft touched down before the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 82 kt, which was within acceptable limits. However, the touchdown rate was somewhat heavy at -707 fpm. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned, deviating 4.5 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 227 meters, accounting for 18% of the available runway length. Following touchdown, the aircraft's rollout alignment was very good, indicating a high degree of control and stability during the landing phase. The total flight distance was 15 nm, and the aircraft consumed 14 kg of fuel during the 5-minute flight.
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